In The Realm Of Night (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
I.THE flowing night awoken from my sleepRevealed a world of glory, while I stoodWatching the hazy, creeping ocean sweepOut of ...
I.THE flowing night awoken from my sleepRevealed a world of glory, while I stoodWatching the hazy, creeping ocean sweepOut of ...
KNOW this : that through all time past Love hasbeenSo sweet that none could perish and not liveForthwith again.Ere Persia ...
FROM the squat tavern laughing to the eastHe turned; within the murmuring babbleceas'd;And red wine split on scattered roses thereExhaled ...
HIM, wounded, shackled, pricked with spears,they dragged and goaded through thetown.Up the soaked hill 'neath dripping boughs, acrosssteep ditches slipping ...
GOD dreaming in his star-enshrouded skyBethought himself of me, so even IWho was till then as nothing, leapt to life ...
I. The Builders Of The PyramidO, CELESTIAL Khu-fu, ThouKing, art Osiris now.Our lives were Thine, yet were we freeTo live ...
A MERE two hundred years ago he spoke,He arguing with me - I can hear him croakStill, at my side ...
He found her where white daisies blewAgainst the wood in drift of spray,And glimpses of the sky upthrewBlood from the ...
DO not crave sure ease - to quaffClear crystal cups abrim with wine,When lips are fain to mock and laughAnd ...
IT has taken all time for that wave to swell,Low-ridged, from the ocean over the bay.While cEons withered and nations ...
He: Blue, blue eternally, dark waves and skyBlue - and beyond unending deeps of blue,This and the emerald earth, the ...
I SAW him where the doomed, a thickening flood,Jostled the brazen Gates of Heaven. HecriedWith dry-parched throat and lips beslimed ...
EACH hour that passes, dead for evermore,Lies in the waste of ages whence the staleAir of unwoken silence, shore to ...
FROM the creeping deep darkness dimFar shadows of sunset broodFrom the shroud of hill and treeTo the wash of the ...
LITTLE songs like fairies wingingDown the happy star-ways, falling,When you heard his fancy singingMany a joy of gold and blue,Glancing, ...
WITH bleared eyes blinking, dazed, the cripplestrayedAmong the plunging traffic; peeringroundUncertain, moved and fell. One fearful soundCaught his life bubble-like; ...
ALL'S life, and yet men doubt it, deeming itAbsorbed by one of its conditions; soDestroyed in one breath's trifling death, ...
THEY are the slaves of death who fear to die,They are the cowards who strive againsttheir fate -And thus it ...
Pain, pain exalts me Into consciousness:I am awake! My jangled anguish rivesEach tense quick nerve pricked by unnum-bered knives,My only ...
Who is Great God? If we perish, then the dustAnd mould of earth Is God; and as wemustWe act, devoid ...
THE million noises jangled In the streetConfused together (loud and clear apart:The rattling trains, the rhythmic clattering beatOf horses and ...
THEY talk of love for they have knownAll ways of life - each mad removeThat lags to death; and all ...
BEYOND and on each side the sombre seaThat sways and stretches to the distant skyTinged with approaching dawn; andshadowed o'erAnd ...
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